2020-21 Women's Golf
Caroline Cantlay
- Height:
- 5-6
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- High School:
- Rosary Academy
- Hometown:
- Los Alamitos, CA
2020-21 -- Averaged 75.5 strokes over 24 rounds in fourth year with the program, second on the team ... granted fifth year of eligibility due to NCAA ruling for all student-athletes who competed in the spring of 2020 ... posted four top-20 finishes with seven rounds of par or better, including a 66 in final round of Fresno State Classic, climbing 33 spots on the leaderboard into a tie for 16th place ... best finish was second place in the Big West Conference Championship at Yorba Linda Country Club, carding rounds of 70, 72 and 73, one shot from medalist honors ... also placed 10th in The Gold Rush hosted by Long Beach State ... enters final season at Cal Poly with a 75.10 career scoring average over 81 rounds, No. 1 in program history ... also has 16 career top-20 finishes (eight in the top 10) and 15 roiunds of par or better, including four rounds in the 60s.
2019-20 -- Competed in all seven tournaments as a junior before the season was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic ... averaged a team-leading 75.1 strokes over 20 rounds with five top-20 finishes, including three in the top 10 ... finished tied for second in the Rainbow Wahine Invitational hosted by Hawai'i ... also was tied for sixth in season-opening Hobble Creek Fall Classic hosted by Utah Valley and seventh in the Battle at Old Works hosted by Montana and Montana State ... set school record with a 65 in second round of Rainbow Wahine Invitational ... carded seven birdies and 11 pars in her bogey-free round ... also carded pair of 72s in Hobble Creek Fall Classic ... named Big West Conference Golfer of the Month for October.
2018-19 -- Competed in seven tournaments and posted a team-leading 74.4 scoring average over 21 rounds with four top-20 finishes and six rounds of par or better, including two rounds in the 60s ... carded a pair of 68s en route to first-place finish in UC Irvine Invitational ... her 206 for three rounds is a personal best ... also placed fifth in Battle at the Rock with rounds of 72, 74 and 72 ... her best three rounds all were posted at the UC Irvine Invitational ... overcame a three-hole deficit at the turn to defeat top-seeded Amari Avery and capture top honors in the 2019 Southern California Golf Association Women's Match Play Championship on the par-72, 6,067-6,257-yard Omni La Costa Resort's Champions Course in Carlsbad ... won in a one-hole playoff
2017-18 -- Competed in six tournaments as a true freshman, compiling a 75.38 scoring average over 16 rounds with two rounds of par or better ... pair of top-20 finishes, including a fifth-place tie in the Cal Poly Invitational ... finished 11th in Big West Conference Championship with rounds of 72, 77 and 75 for a 224 total ... best round was a pair of 71s -- first round of The Gold Rush and second round of the Anuenue Spring Break Classic ... named Big West Conference Freshman of the Year and earned second-team All-Big West honors.
High School -- A four-year varsity letter winner under head coach Steve Hiskey at Rosary Academy in Fullerton, Calif. ... co-medalist in Trinity League individual finals as a junior and second-place finisher as a senior ... qualified for CIF-Southern Section Individual Finals in 2015 and 2016 ... earned first-team All-Orange County as a junior and senior ... team medalist as a sophomore, junior and senior ... chosen as the Sophomore Athlete of the Year at Rosary ... placed first in Toyota Tour Cup event at Cypress Ridge in 2016 with rounds of 80 and 72 and also earned three sixth-place finishes on the tour.
Personal -- Daughter of Steve and Colleen Cantlay ... both parents are USC graduates and own a real estate settlement company, Westport Escrow ... three brothers, Patrick, Nick and Jack ... Patrick, who played golf at UCLA, joined the PGA Tour in 2014 ... Nick played golf at Long Beach State ... traveled to Ireland in the summer of 2910 ... born in Long Beach, Calif. ... majoring in agricultural business.
